How to turn desert into paradise
Permaculture teaches us how to manage water in a smart and natural way in order to stop desertification It was 2011 when...
A permaculture Garden of Eden
The story of Charles, Perrine and their farm Miraculous Abundance it’s not only the English title of the book published in 2014 by...
SILENT RETREAT: the magic of silence
During our trip to Bali, we found ourselves with a colourful leaflet in our hands describing this place with organic food, yoga...
How we started a Food Forest in Italy
A Food Forest, also known as Forest Garden, is a multi-purpose and multi-function cultivation system in which trees grown for timber, fruit...
Green manuring in Permaculture and Synergistic Agriculture
In Permaculture and Synergistic Agriculture green manuring is a technique for taking care of the soil along with mulch, crop rotation and...
What does synergistic agriculture teach to children?
As we already explained in a previous article, synergistic agriculture is a way of farming that respects nature and at the same...
5 good reasons for doing Permaculture in Italy
Permaculture was born in Australia in the 1970’s from the intuitions of Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. Despite the peculiarity of the...
Love for nature and agriculture
With permaculture, farms become natural masterpieces In the early 1990s, when I was still in elementary school, adults decided that I couldn’t...
CAT: Centre for Alternatives Tecnology
The patron saint of Wales, St David, had an enormous respect for nature: the earth was the main source of food for...
LAGO DEI PONTINI E LAGO LUNGO
Il Lago dei Pontini (748 mt slm) e il Lago Lungo (616 mt slm) si sono formati a seguito di un’ enorme...
A small introduction to Permaculture
Permaculture is a series of techniques that allow us to design and create long-lasting sustainable human settlements. This approach gives us the...
The use of swales in Permaculture
The concept of swale has very ancient origins. In Italy they were used in agriculture also by Etruscans and Romans. Nowadays swales...